The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-23

many superior auNhhIabSs w uu"i
control. Another straw to show
how the wind blows; The Russian
journal, the Chord" Of Brussels,
has administered douche to the
extreme politicians in France, whom
the journal accuses Of forming Rus
sian sympathies, to eject Minister
Rouvier from power. This looks
black and wintry for Boulangerism.
Is it surprising then, that the French
commerce TO feel Russia is angling
on her own account? Is it to be
wondered at, that they see the Eng
fish likely to remain fixture in
Egypt2 And would it not be Curl
GUS If the Egyptian and New Hebri-
DIES questions were after all settled
iu Bulgaria.
A very curious libel case has just
been tried at Donai. M. Soufilet is
a monarchist, and was colonel of the
National Guard of Landrecies, dur
the German war. Last June he
became candidate for vacant
Senatorship in the North Of France.
The republicans published against
him an order of the day of General
Faidherbe, of February 1871, de-
priving him of his command, for
''feebleness" in defending the fort
of Landrecies. The opposition
journals taking this as text. at
tackled the candidate very severely,
as being coward, disgrace to the
cloth, and with running away when
the Prussian shells began to ex-
plode. He sued them for libel the
jury gave verdict with costs,
against the ex-colonel.
If it be possible for the French to
be unanimous over one subject, it
certainly ought to be that of Jeanne
d. Arc. NJ. de Woestyore has
taken a plebescite of the Forty
Academicians as to their opinion of
the maid. Thirty-nine replied that
she was heroine, closely allied to
saint. John Lemoine declined to
say anything at all, not even to
quote Voltaire's opinion. Monsignor
Perraud, Bishop of Autun, writes
"her enemies in their rage, reduced
her remains to ashes, and threw
them into the Seine, and the river
transported them to the ocean for her
tomb" The bishop forgets that it
was decision of the University of
Paris, of the church, and expressed
by bishop, that ordered the poor
and brave Joan to be burned as
witch. The English being then the
authorities, dealt with her, as they
we're in the habit of treating their
own sorceresses. M. de Lesseps
writes, Jeanne is Pacific Frace.
This plebscite is intended to fortify
the demand before the Pope to
canonize Jeanne d. Are; the pre-
sent Government of France cannot
back the application; indeed, for
the republicans, if His Holiness had
anything to do with the placing her
in the calendar, they would repu-
date her memory. A few days ago
at Potiers, the pious people were
occupied until the setting up of
the statue to Vainte Radegonde,
when the mob nearly shivered it to
pieces. Yet in the sixth century,
th.t lady was burning and shining
light.
| In erecting suauuo tv tiao Ply
sicist de Sansure, at Chamonex,
France desires to prove she honors
genius irrespective of nationality.
| She has erected statue to the Eng
lish Senner, at Boulogne Sur Mer,
and now it is the turn for a Swiss.
De Saussure was not the first human
foot planted on the summit of Mont
Blanc, it was the guide Jacques
Balmat, who later accompanied him,
and naturally he is associated in the
equality of glory-to the first scien-
fist and the first guide. In few
days, the statute will be inaugu7
rated, on the centenary of the first
ascension. Balmat fell victim to
his mountaineering. He knew every
hole, Granny, and abyss round Mont
Blanc, but was killed on his native
"heath," while prospecting for gold
at the age of ~. The Marquis de
Turrenne, dean of the French Alpin-
lists, was aged u when he assembled
| the monarch of mountains in Aug.
1875. The tip-top summit Of Mont
Blanc is composed of q crust of
snow, So yards thick, and the
needle point has not more than 80
inches in width, and say 10000 feet
above the Mediterranean-Glaish-
er's balloon ascension was double
that height. In 1865, an English
lady did the summit, drank while
there glass of champagne, danced,
and sang the 'Marserllaise." On
the pedestal of the statue TO honor
de Saussure and Balmat, would it
not be we'll to enregister the names
Of those who achieved the feat Of
Christopher Columbus of the Alps,
as we'll the martyrs who succumbed
and the death roll is high-in the
attempt?
There is lull in duelling: one
cannot be killing every day. Not
q word now about the meeting of
Gen. Boulanger and Jules Ferry.
The former must feel proud to
learn that his autograph sells from
20 fr., while that of Jules Ferry
only brings 10 fir, an autograph of
Victor Hugo, foot-hooks and hang
ers. foot long, can be had for 3fr.